These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
Verse 10. But these speak evil of those things which they know not. These false and corrupt teachers employ reproachful language of those things which lie wholly beyond the reach of their vision. . But what they know naturally. As mere men; as animals; that is, in things pertaining to their physical nature, or in which they are on a level with the brute creation.
A double crime is here charged upon these seducers by our apostle, namely, pride, in speaking evil of things they know not; and wickedness, in abusing the knowledge they had. 1. Their sin was great in speaking evil of what they did not know, (they reviled dignities and magistrates, the usefulness of whom they knew not) and possibly condemned the mysteries of the Christian faith...
Sin is filthiness; it renders men odious and vile in God's sight, and sooner or later makes them vile in their own eyes and in the eyes of all around them. These filthy dreamers dream themselves into a fool's paradise on earth, and into a real hell at last.
AI summary
Commenting on Jude 1:8-15